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• Provision of health equipment to facilitate basic health screening (sphygmomanometers to measure blood pressure and weighing scales) • Encourages workplace to provide supportive environments and actions for employees to be active, eat healthy, be smoke-free and have good mental well-being. • AIM: • Develop or strengthen workplace healthy lifestyle programmes or workplace health promotion programmes in all Government ministries by 2021 • By end of 2019, Workplace Health Promotion Programmes (WHPP) to be developed or strengthen in 6 ministries. • Scheduled workshops to increase knowledge and competencies. • consist of group health talks/counselling; exhibition; BMI health screening; training on mobility breaks which will be conducted by GJPMC and an appointed qualified health company commissioned by the Ministry of Health • KPI: 10% participation rate for overall programme in each ministry. There will be a minimum of 6 sessions per ministry lasting 2-3 hours per session and the target will be 200-300 participants per session • Free after-hours weekly group exercise sessions; pointers on mid-morning mobility breaks to promote and increase uptake of physical activity • The weekly exercise sessions will be conducted/led by one (1) appointed Fitness Instructor (FI) assigned to each ministry. • exercise sessions to be conducted by each FI in a year (10 months) and 1 walkathon/mass exercise session for each ministry. Relevant ministry to promote and encourage maximum participation each week

Green Protocol Tree planting is one of the most significant elements under the protocol; it emphasises that for every tree The Brunei Darussalam National Council on cut during the development of any government Climate Change (BNCCC) launched the Protokol project, one new tree must be planted to Hijau, or Green Protocol, yesterday as part of compensate for the loss of carbon removal Climate Action Year, by planting 68 saplings at the capacity, in line with Strategy 2 (Forest Cover) of recreation site of Sultan Haji Omar ‘Ali Saifuddien the BNCCP, which seeks to increase the national Bridge in Kampong Sungai Besar. carbon sink through reforestation and afforestation. The event was jointly officiated by Minister of With forest coverage of 72 per cent, Brunei was Development Dato Seri Setia Ir Awang Haji Suhaimi carbon neutral in 2018. However, the carbon bin Haji Gafar and Minister of Energy Dato Seri emissions were slightly higher due to the recent Setia Dr Awang Haji Mat Suny bin Haji Mohd economic development, thus mitigation measures Hussien, as Co-Chairmen of BNCCC. under the protocol have been put in place to bring down the carbon emissions. Cabinet Ministers, deputy ministers, foreign diplomats in Brunei Darussalam, permanent These measures require a whole-of-nation effort to secretaries and deputy permanent secretaries also ensure the transition to a low-carbon and climate participated in the tree planting ceremony. resilient nation will be successful. Green Protocol is one of the initiatives spearheaded Among the highlights of yesterday’s event was the by the government in promoting a sustainable collaborative effort of sapling planting by Cabinet lifestyle in efforts to reduce carbon emissions in the Ministers. The gesture served as a symbol of their country, which is in line with the Brunei Darussalam commitment and determination in leading the action National Climate Change Policy (BNCCP) of paving to address climate change. the way for the country to become a sustainable nation. This year, 26,000 trees are expected to be planted across ministries as the government acknowledges It outlines a set of guidelines that can contribute that it is crucial to preserve the country’s forest to significantly to the reduction of carbon footprint, maintain the carbon sequestration capacity. through the adoption of efficient technologies and conservation measures in a number of areas – energy; water; paper and plastic usage; waste disposal management; official events management; and tree planting. The launch of the protocol serves to further strengthen existing initiatives and to enhance awareness within the government sector. Most measures introduced under the protocol have already been initiated in most government buildings.